Features

Solutions like CollegeiP offer numerous benefits for colleges, including:

School iP Benefits for Trusts

Performance Management

Incorporating a robust and customisable evaluation system that allows college leaders to define clear performance indicators and track progress over time. It also facilitates regular feedback loops between managers and teachers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.

Professional Development

Designed to enhance teaching and support staff’s skills, knowledge, and instructional techniques. It employs personalised learning pathways, allowing teachers to identify their specific areas for growth and access targeted content that aligns with their individual needs and interests.

Self-Evaluation

Empowering colleges to conduct systematic and data-driven evaluations of their overall performance and progress. It guides college leaders through the evaluation process, prompting them to assess various aspects of the college’s operations, including academic achievement, teaching quality, student well-being, staff development, and community engagement.

Improvement Planning

This is a comprehensive and dynamic platform that facilitates strategic planning and collaborative decision making for college improvement. It offers a user-friendly interface that allows leaders, teachers, and stakeholders to collectively outline the college’s vision, mission, and long-term goals.

College-Wide Audits

One of the latest modules we have introduced is a comprehensive and user-friendly platform designed to streamline the audit process and enhance the efficiency of college evaluations. It offers customisable templates and checklists that align with various auditing standards and frameworks, allowing colleges to conduct internal and external audits with ease.

Policy Management

The final piece in terms of whole college improvement is a platform that supports the creation and approval of policies, which may be reviewed on a periodic basis and track the viewing and acknowledgment of policies by staff too. This new module supports the process of managing policies across the college and ensures that they are relevant and up to date.

CPD

CollegeiP CPD function is an easy and effective tool for tracking and enhancing continuous professional development (CPD), supporting educators throughout their growth journey.

Professional Discussions

Regular professional discussions among colleagues are integral to fostering a collaborative, supportive, and effective educational environment. They play a vital role in professional development, problem-solving, and ultimately improving student success

Standards & Competencies

CollegeiP is the platform for colleagues to consolidate their strengths and to minimise their weaknesses. This must be a constructive undertaking that is never demoralising. To increase the transparency and enhance this process, reference expectations and professional standards.

Monitoring

CollegeiP allows monitoring to be performed digitally and linked to staff performance management data. Monitoring outcomes can be linked as evidence in reviews. Monitoring forms can also be linked to performance criteria, which automatically reflects in the staff member's portfolio.

Trust Dashboard

CollegeiP offers detailed dashboards that compile data from the entire college, or trust into one user-friendly view. This allows for administrators to have an effective overview of operations within their organisation. All data is collected and shown in real-time, improving communication between staff.

Learning Walks

CollegeiP allows learning walks to be carried out using monitoring forms that can be easily linked to staff performance, professional development, and classroom standards. CollegeiP links all of these components together to take the load off of teachers when connecting data together.

Areas for Development

CollegeiP allows for staff to be assigned areas for development. These areas can be unique to staff members, be given deadlines, and can be graded within CollegeiP to centralise professional development. They can also be linked to evidence such as monitoring, standards, documents, CPD and various other forms of evidence that CollegeiP contains.

Succession Planning

CollegeiP's centralised performance management & professional development features tie in perfectly with staff succession planning. CollegeiP allows staff members and line managers to make recommendations & requests for future job roles. This can be decided during staff reviews, with the results stored in CollegeiP to be used in future reviews.

Subject & Department Reviews

CollegeiP provides the opportunity for individual departments to create their own action plans & reviews. Departments set objectives linked to strategic priorities, ensuring every action contributes to college-wide improvement. Colleges can upload or link evidence directly, ensuring plans are grounded in reliable data and aligned with self-evaluation.

Collaboration

One of CollegeiP's most valuable features is its collaboration. Staff members can be assigned as collaborators to other staff reviews, allowing them to perform peer observations and share evidence. Collaborators can be assigned specific rights such as the ability to view or manage standards, objectives, monitoring, CPD and more. CollegeiP provides detailed options to choose collaborator rights.

Subject & Department Action Plans

Effective action planning is the cornerstone of any successful college improvement strategy. It provides a clear roadmap for achieving specific goals, allocating resources, and monitoring progress. By utilising CollegeiP, colleges can streamline the action planning process and ensure that initiatives are aligned with their overall vision.

Objectives

CollegeiP provides effective objective tracking, allowing for objectives to be linked to Staff Portfolios & graded as part of performance appraisals. Each objective can be given actions to be taken before the objective can be classed as met. Evidence can be linked to objectives and reviewed at any time from a staff portfolio allowing for centralised performance management and reviews.

Coaching

CollegeiP enhances & encourages staff to participate in coaching discussions, CollegeiP's wide array of performance management and professional development features allow for a variety of coaching methods such as peer observations, set goals, objectives and more. CollegeiP centralises these features, removing the need for separate documents and file locations.

Probation and Induction

By using CollegeiP, colleges can effectively support probationary staff through clear goal setting, regular feedback, personalised development plans, data-driven decision-making, and enhanced communication. CollegeiP eliminates paperwork for these processes and keeps all data accessible from a digital solution, able to be exported in various formats which can then be printed if a physical copy is required.